Matthew 25:14-30

1. We learn that all professing Christians have received something from God.
2. We learn that many make a bad use of the privileges and mercies they receive from God.
3. We learn that all professing Christians must one day have a reckoning with God.
4. We learn that true Christians will receive an abundant reward in the great day of reckoning.
5. We learn that all unfruitful members of Christ's Church will be condemned and cast away in the day of judgment.

"The best of Christians is a poor frail creature, and needs the blood of atonement every day that he lives. But the least and lowest of believers will find that he is counted among Christ's servants, and that his labor has not been in vain in the Lord. He will discover to his amazement, that his Master's eye saw more beauty in his efforts to please Him, than he ever saw himself."

"Let us leave this parable with a solemn determination, by God's grace, never to be content with a profession of Christianity without practice. Let us not only talk about religion, but act. Let us not only feel the importance of religion, but do something too. We are not told that the unprofitable servant was a murderer, or a thief, or even a waster of his Lord's money. But he did nothing--and this was his ruin. Let us beware of a do-nothing Christianity. Such Christianity does not come from the Spirit of God. "To do no harm," says Baxter, "is the praise of a stone, not of a man.""